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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-21
Writing prompt[WP] You're hired with a dozen other professional personal security specialists to bolster a billionaire's already strong security team at his residence for the weekend. No one knows why he is so scared he will be taken this particular weekend. You didn't care. The money is excellent.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-20
Writing prompt[WP] Your friends laugh when you tell them you're a vampire hunter. It's your go-to answer when they ask what you do for a living. You laugh along with them, hoping they don't notice the dark circles under your eyes or the way your hands shake. You're getting tired...
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-19
Writing prompt[WP] They say when you lose one sense all of your other senses are heightened. You lost every single one of your senses in a bomb explosion. Now something strange is happening.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-18
Writing prompt[WP] You discover that your child has insane levels of strength and speed. So much so that the only thing stopping them is the authority of you being an adult. It's their first day of kindergarten, their first day around other kids.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-17
Writing prompt[WP] The delivery person knocked on the door and waited until it opened. "Finally, someone to eat, I'm starving"
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Source date: 2020-05-16
Writing prompt[WP] You are an average joe who now possesses an ability to switch between versions of yourself in alternate universes - there you are a world class alpinist, a technocrat, a secret agent, your personal life so different and much more.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-15
Writing prompt[WP] It's Saturday morning. You wake up to the smell of breakfast being cooked. You go downstairs and sit at the table with your family. You make coffee and look up at the three people staring at you. They are not your family.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-14
Writing prompt[WP] You knock on your sisters door and she doesn't answer so you open it anyway finding her floating in the air chanting incantations. "Mum wants you to do the dishes." You say completely unfazed.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-13
Writing prompt[WP] A librarian notices small changes in patrons who check out a century-old book.
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Source date: 2020-05-12
Writing prompt[WP] You live in a world where everyone knows each other
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Source date: 2020-05-11
Writing prompt[WP] Our universe has been bought over by another universe. A project is kickstarted to integrate the two universes and eliminate the redundancies.
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Source date: 2020-05-10
Writing prompt[WP] You find a journal on your nightstand. Every time you open it you find a new journal entry from an alternate reality.
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Source date: 2020-05-09
Writing prompt[WP] You thought you were going over to a friend's house for a party. Little did you know you were about to be inducted into the world's most secret society.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-08
Writing prompt[WP] "What do you mean you're not gonna pay? You do realize there are six of us and only one of you."
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Source date: 2020-05-07
Writing prompt[WP] Main chr has the ability to blink themself into the future, same spot in space, but loses the time, physically, that was blinked away. Uses it to get out of sticky situations and/or simple tasks like sleep and waiting for food to cook in the microwave.
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Source date: 2020-05-06
Writing prompt[WP] For a long time now, a red aura that only you can see has appeared around certain objects that you need in order to do certain tasks, even if you don't know why or how you need them yet. One day, an entire person lights up red.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-05
Writing prompt[WP] While browsing Tinder you came across a profile, the bio listed soul collector as their job. You chat well and decided to go on a date with them. It was going smoothly, they're charming and funny, and you decide to ask if they're really a soul collector. To your amazement they seem serious.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-05-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are having a job interview for what seems like a simple office job, and all seems to be going well, as the interview wraps up. Before you are hired, however, your interviewer asks you one last question: "Are you willing to kill for this job?"
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Source date: 2020-05-03
Writing prompt[WP] S.E.T.I. (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) has finally found something. A single message, composed of hundreds of languages. Some of them haven't been spoken in millenia. Translated, they all say the same thing...
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Source date: 2020-05-02
Writing prompt[WP] You have woken up in an empty world, everyone but yourself has completely disappeared. There are no other survivors. Animals and other forms of life were unaffected by whatever caused every man, woman and child to vanish overnight and the world is untouched by any disease or destruction.
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Source date: 2020-05-01
Writing prompt[WP] As you browse the app store on your phone something catches your eye; it proclaims upon its installation it will change the way you see the world. Having a mixed bag of reviews, and figuring it must be some sort of Augmented Reality game you decide to install it.
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Source date: 2020-04-30
Writing prompt[WP] You are out for a jog in your local park. You glance at joggers approaching from behind. You jog faster but are met by joggers coming towards you from in front. A usual sight but something in the back of your mind tells you they aren't just out for their wekeend jog, they are running from someone.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-29
Writing prompt[WP] You can look at a person and know who their ancestors are. You've already seen people who are descended from robots, lizard people, and fishmen, but a fairy? That's a new one.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-28
Writing prompt[WP] You're able to feel and understand everyone's pain, physical or mental, to help them grow and heal. One day, you decide to visit an insane asylum.
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Source date: 2020-04-27
Writing prompt[WP] All your life you have been tormented by a demon, he follows you anywhere you go and makes your life a living hell. Last night you moved to a new house full of ghosts and other scary entities who try to terrify you, your demon won't allow anyone else to bother you..
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-26
Writing prompt[WP] You were betrayed by the ones you called friends. They sacrificed you in a satanic ritual during an outing. However, you were taken by things older than you thought possible. Empowered by them, you return as their agent in a war that scales eons and worlds beyond. But first, your revenge.
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Source date: 2020-04-25
Writing prompt[WP] "Oh great far-speaking tower, I have performed the rituals as set forth in the sacred manual. Let me speak to the sky spirit so I may learn of its wisdom!" "Uh.. Copy that. Moon City Delta responding... We thought everyone was dead down there."
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Source date: 2020-04-24
Writing prompt[WP] Your latest bounty was a loud mouth pain to catch. You'd like nothing better to get your gold and get out. Instead you're told "oh no, I said I'd pay for you getting 'em, I didn't say I'd take 'em back. Your problem now."
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Source date: 2020-04-23
Writing prompt[WP] When applying for a loan, the bank asks you to list your assets. You have none, so you jokingly write "my soul" as an asset. To your surprise, the bank signs off on the loan. After months of not paying the bank, 2 repo men show up at your doorstep.
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Source date: 2020-04-22
Writing prompt[WP] There are many alternate Earths, but there is one particular Earth that has become highly successful, progressive, and peaceful. Except, refugees from other, more dystopian Earths have started coming there.
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Source date: 2020-04-21
Writing prompt[WP] The United Earth Star Federation is testing a new FTL-weapon, capable of firing depleted Uranium at incredible distances. Target for the testing are the asteroids around Jupiter. Some shots hit spectacularly whilst others miss and vanish beyond our scanners. Then after a month of missed shots...
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Source date: 2020-04-20
Writing prompt[WP] When you woke up this morning, you knew something went wrong. No activity on the internet, no one's answering calls, no one on the streets, your neighbors don't answer the door. The world has gone silent. Then, you hear something...
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Source date: 2020-04-19
Writing prompt[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down.
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Source date: 2020-04-18
Writing prompt[WP] An archeological expedition unearths the long forgotten tomb of an ancient king. To the horror of the archeologists the mummy rises from the dead, horror that quickly shifts to confusion as the mummy just seems to be mildly annoyed at being woken up.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-17
Writing prompt[WP] You're having trouble sleeping when you realize your clock has stopped ticking.
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Source date: 2020-04-16
Writing prompt[WP] You always kept your interest in the occult a secret from your religious parents, fearful of what they would do. During your latest ritual, they appeared ...inside the summoning circle.
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Source date: 2020-04-15
Writing prompt[WP] Homeless, hungry, and desperation for connection, you find yourself face to face with Satan under an overpass offering a deal. Difference is though, it's not your soul he wants, but something much more personal.
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Source date: 2020-04-14
Writing prompt[WP] After thousands of years of slumber, an ancient evil has finally reawakened... in the middle of a war zone.
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Source date: 2020-04-13
Writing prompt[WP] Every year, the worst 10% of humanity disappears. You show up to work Monday to find that the deli manager is missing.
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Source date: 2020-04-12
Writing prompt[WP] You go to the fridge to see if there's anything to eat, despite it being practically empty the last three times you checked this hour. But when you open it, it's completely full.
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Source date: 2020-04-11
Writing prompt[WP] You've been in a strange relationshp for the past year with a person on the phone who called you by mistake. Finally, you both decide to meet but when you're both in the same location you figure out somehow you both exist in different realities.
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Source date: 2020-04-10
Writing prompt[WP] A demon is summoned by an ancient ritual. Seeing a lone human as the summoner, the demon expects to be asked for fortune or power or something generic. "Please help us," the pitiful human whimpers, "our planet is in danger."
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Source date: 2020-04-09
Writing prompt[WP] You're a straightedge suburban homeowner who's never done anything illegal. One day you notice that an unmarked vehicle has been parked in front of your house for 3 days straight. You wave to the vehicle; it speeds off. Tomorrow it's outside once more.
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Source date: 2020-04-08
Writing prompt[WP] The sound of the wooden floor cracking is become louder and louder by the second. You can feel that something dark and monstrous is approaching you, but you cannot see it with your naked eyes. You are the only one alive in the task force.
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Source date: 2020-04-07
Writing prompt[WP] One night, at a bar, you order the club special. As you drink it, the world melts away. The bartender speaks, "What you see now is the real world. They pump poison into your veins to keep you complacent. I just gave you the antidote, but it won't last. Will you join the resistance?"
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Source date: 2020-04-06
Writing prompt[WP] Every day, at 10:45, he sits there. The same man, the same suit. Waiting. If you look again, he's gone. Then one day, you sit in his spot and wait.
Read this moment →Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories · Complete moment
Source date: 2020-04-05
Writing prompt[WP] You recently proposed to your high school girlfriend but she has a dark secret about her family she has yet to tell you.
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Source date: 2020-04-04
Writing prompt[WP] You are a government employee whose family disappeared under mysterious circumstances years ago. You decide to travel back in time to investigate and try to save your family, however, time travel is illegal and you are now being hunted.
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